Lydgalleriet showcases two new works developed through the Resonance network, focusing on movement and simultaneity at their temporary Skostredet 16 location. Maia Urstad’s Meanwhile, in Shanghai... features a spatial sound installation with 75 portable radios transmitting global radio sounds, while Paul Devens' City Chase uses four moving loudspeakers to recreate sounds from a bike ride in Bergen, offering a unique auditory experience.
Lydgalleriet presents two new works that have been developed through Resonance, European network of sound art. Both works deal with concepts of movement and simultaneity and are installed in each of their spaces in Lydgalleriet's temporary location in Skostredet 16.
In Meanwhile, in Shanghai… Urstad has collected details about time and place from local radio stations around the world, assembling them together with other radio-specific sounds in a polyphonic sonic image – like a phonogram of a 24-hour cycle on the air. The term UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, is of recent date. Today, we assume without thinking much about it, that the world live in one global time in a universal existence. Economic as well as organic, we are also associated with persons who are in completely different daily realities and environments.
City Chase by Paul Devens is a 10 meter wide installation with four loudspeakers that moves along each of their metal rail. The speakers' movements on the rail echo Deven's bike ride around the city centre of Bergen, where he recorded sounds from the city whilst biking. He then composed the recorded sounds in a choreography that provides us with a new way of listing to the otherwise so familiar sounds of Bergen.
In the occasion of Radio 1001's (Dinah Bird and Jean-Philippe Renoult) tour in Norway, Lydgalleriet arranges an evening in the name of the radio Sunday March 3rd, 19.00.
Curated by Lydgalleriet and co-produced by Resonance, European Sound Art Network.